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What is a Crucial Conversation?

Are you avoiding one? I am... Most of us are likely avoiding having an important talk with a partner, boss, child, or friend. This is...

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Bouncing Pickles Only

Crazy Facts Series #2 - It is illegal to sell a "bounceless" pickle in Connecticut. This law put Connecticut Librarians in quite the...

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Rose & Skull...to start

The story behind my first three tattoos.

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Introducing Crucial Conversations

How I Got to This Post Before we get there, let me fill you in on the fiasco I experienced just to get to this post. Some months ago,...

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Crazy Facts Series

#1 - Copper doorknobs are self-disinfecting Copper and its alloys, such as brass, have long been popular materials for manufacturing...

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A DANGEROUS COMBINATION

The misinformation effect combined with the confirmation bias is dangerous. The Misinformation Effect The misinformation effect was first...

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I WISH I HAD...MY WAY

I would make the world a better place for everyone I whish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a baller. I wish I had a girl who...

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HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE A GOOD SOURCE FROM A BAD SOURCE

Fact-check articles, make sure writers are using reliable sources. I am not only writing myself, but I recommend that you fact check...

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ONE IN THE SAME

We Are All HUMAN Although today people across the globe look different on the outside, it wasn’t always this way. When we – Homo sapiens...

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HOODWINKED IN THE INFORMATION AGE

Misinformation from social platforms and news sites is guiding many of our lives and not in a good way. Many of you may not even realize...